MAKE YOUR OWN TWITTER

I read Hacker News because I have a geeky computer background (anyone remember the HotDog HTML editor?), though honestly these days I don’t understand 80% of anything on there.

That said, when I saw ‘The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter’ I knew I had to check it out.

Turns out they made their own Twitter-like feed on their own website, where they can post all their bits and bops (they called it “micronews”).

You can should have a section on your own website, with your own domain name, where you can post your thoughts, and dreams, and links to cool things, and embed fun videos.

Don’t make your fans visit toxic platforms to find your regular updates, but instead invite them to your website, and keep them there. Give them something to dig into on your domain name, rather than shuffling them off for other companies to monetize your work.

Here are some examples of people who’ve added their own Twitter-like feeds to their sites:

• Sketch Book Niabi (and here’s a post talking about it)
• Pappas Bland’s Feed
• The Ripple Maker Daily Feed

If you’ve made a “feed” on your site, please let me know and I’ll add it here!